HanbitSoft is interested in relaunching Hellgate: London in the US and Europe, but Namco Bandai’s western publishing deal prevents it, reports Gamasutra. “There have been many inquiries from US and European Hellgate players surrounding the availability of the game in those respective territories,” said CEO Kee Young Kim. “HanbitSoft does own the intellectual property of […]

Looks like the end has finally come for Hellgate: London, at least in its current form. As of yesterday, the game servers and official website have finally, actually been closed. Never fear, though. If you enjoyed the game you’ll eventually be able to start anew in its free-to-play form when HanbitSoft relaunches the game complete […]

Hellgate London will continue to be published as a free-to-play title by Korean outfit HanbitSoft, the company’s confirmed. No territories have been specified. Namco has already confirmed it’s to shut the game’s servers down in the West. HanbitSoft said yesterdav that future updates for Hellgate: London are in the works, with a focus on “strengthening […]

Sorry Hellgate fans – even the promise of a new expansion won’t keep your game of choice from getting the padlock treatment in 2009. Community manager Diane “Tiggs” Migliaccio explained in a post on the official Hellgate forums: “People are speculating and I don’t want anyone shocked on January 31, 2009 when the server and […]

Bit slow on this, sorry. HanbitSoft – the South Korean company that now owns the rights to Hellgate: London – has confirmed that there’s new content in the pipe for the troubled action-RPG-MMO. “Since acquiring the intellectual property rights, HanbitSoft Inc., the publisher and distributor of Hellgate: London in Asia, has concentrated on the development […]

According to this Shacknews story, Namco will be shutting down Hellgate’s servers in February. Until then, the game will be catered for as a “further gesture of support” from the firm. Unpleasant. More through the link.

According to a post on the official Hellgate forums, Namco has stepped in to save the Flagship game being washed away in the wake of the developer’s demise. “I know everyone is looking for an announcement, and we’d love to make one, but right now, many things are in flux and we don’t have all […]

Talking on his blog, Flagship audio and gameplay programmer Guy Somberg has admitted that the Hellgate studio has something of a leakage issue. “So why is work depressing? The reason is that people are leaving. In droves, they’re leaving,” he said. “We’ve had programmers, accountants, HR people, and artists leave. The founders are all still […]

Funny old world. Despite not really doing the do in the west, Flagship’s Hellgate: London has attracted over a million subscribers in Korea after only two weeks on sale, Joystiq reports. From the site: Hellgate’s beta officially kicked off in Korea on January 15, and according to Korean online game tracking service Gametrics, the game […]

Flagship head Bill Roper’s held his hands up over PC oddity Hellgate: London and said that it wasn’t the game he wanted it to be. “I think that people had incredibly high expectations that we simply didn’t meet,” he said, adding, “We simply tried to do too much with the game. Vista, DirectX 10, being […]